A film titled 'Campaign in Sicily' on the campaign of Allied forces to invade Sicily, Italy during World War II (Operation Husky). Animated map shows the target area of the Allies. British Army General Alan Gordon Cunningham, U.S. Army General Dwight David Eisenhower, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Arthur William Tedder , British Army Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, U.S. Army General George Smith Patton and United States Army Air Forces Lieutenant General James Harold Doolittle plan and discuss during the campaign. Lt. Gen. Doolittle and some officers stand near an airplane. U.S. airplanes bomb Pantelleria. Aircraft in formation flight over the target area and drop bombs. British infantry goes ashore. Masses of Italian prisoners of war march along. Rubbled buildings in the area. Axis airplanes bomb an Allied supply ship off an island. British engineers repair an airstrip on the island. Allied bombers strike target areas in Italy. Troops transports assemble in a harbor at Alexandria, Egypt. Ships being loaded at the harbor. Generals Eisenhower and Patton aboard USS Monrovia. Ships underway at sea. U.S. Navy sailors receive a briefing over a large table map conducted by U.S. Navy officers. Animated map shows target areas and Allied strategies and invaded areas. Allied troops, following a night naval bombardment, land in Sicily using amphibious vehicles and floating causeways. Landing ships are unloaded. Steel mash mats are laid down. Bulldozers are taken ashore. General Patton and 3rd Infantry Division units land. Axis airplanes attack the convoy. They drop bombs over target areas. An ammunition ship is exploded. Heavy columns of smoke rise as ships and landing craft explode. Soldiers advance along a town. Artillery and tanks advance along. Wrecked airplanes and equipment in the area. Dead bodies of soldiers on the ground. A medic treats a wounded. Aircraft in flight overhead. Officers in the balcony of a building. People gather outside the building. Animated map invasion by Allied forces. Prisoners of war are marched along a field. Soldiers advance.
U.S. Navy convoy in the ocean and a Landing Ship Tank approaching a beach in Sicily, Italy during World War II. The ocean water. Three vessels underway in the ocean. A fleet of vessels underway in the water. The vessels fire salvos. A U.S. Landing Ship Tank during invasion. American soldiers on the deck of the Landing Ship Tank. The ship approaches Licata Beach. Several American soldiers and jeeps on the beach.
Italian T3 Scorpion mine detonator in Sicily, Italy during World War II. The T3 Scorpion mine detonator moves towards a barbed wire fence as smoke rises. Explosions occur and billows of smoke rise up as mines are being detonated on a field. The smoke rises as the mines are detonated.
U.S. soldiers lower and fold up a flag of the Kingdom of Italy, from atop a tower overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, at Cape Rasocolmo, Sicily, Italy, 15 km from Messina, during World War 2. They examine a large searchlight mounted on a tracked vehicle. They rotate it. The American soldiers uncover a grass camouflaged listening device (used to locate planes before the invention of the radar). A U.S. Army Sergeant occupies the operator's position and checks its movement controls. Soldiers pull grass camouflaging another large piece of equipment related to artillery (perhaps a type of radar). Scene shifts to view from hills overlooking the waterfront with town and port facilities. An American soldier takes photographs of the scene. Sequence shifts to views from a boat (unseen) moving slowly in the water off the coast. Buildings seen perched on the hillside and summit. Unusually shaped rock formations in the water at base of the cliffs. View from hilltop, of farmland in valley below.
USAAF (United States Army Air Force) 86th Fighter Bomber Group airplanes bomb Sicily, Italy during World War II. Formations of USAAF A-36 Invader dive bombers over Sicily. Aerial views of Sicily.
War damage in Sicily, Italy after bombings done by USAAF (United States Army Air Force) 86th Fighter Bomber Group airplanes during World War II. Anti-aircraft gun emplacement along a damaged harbor. A damaged building with a sign reading 'DUCE'. U.S. Army jeeps drive past a building wall painted with letters 'DUCE'. The Union Jack flies from a building.